_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., p. 404.).--The places mentioned in the
following lines are all within about four miles of each other in the
county of Gloucester, and twenty years ago the adjectives exactly
described the condition of the people; but the great civiliser, the
steam-engine, has now taken away the force of the description; and
although the first and third lines may be as true as ever, the second
and fourth are not:--
"Beggarly Bisley,
Strutting Stroud,
Hampton poor,
And Painswick proud."